Several people missing after California mudslides

September 5, 1997
Web posted at: 5:21 p.m. EDT (2121 GMT)

FOREST FALLS, California (CNN) -- Search and rescue crews were searching in Southern California for 10 hikers, who were issued passes for a mountainous section of Forest Falls where there have been severe mudslides.

A thunderstorm Thursday unleashed a 15-foot-high wall of mud in that area.

Flash floods inundated Southern California deserts, overturning cars and demolishing a 40-foot-wide stretch of highway that runs through Red Rock Canyon State Park, 45 miles northeast of Bakersfield. The water filled normally dry stream beds and canyons.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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